Don't make me say that again please... I love ice-cream

"Apa ni?" you asked? Seems like a rotten McFlurry right? Perhaps.

"Remember, I get to eat it first here, at zLz's Crapping Space."

Astro :: Making YOUR Life Richer (has nothing to do with me please)

Warning: Long post ahead.

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Okay... Not that I'm not aware of the changes Astro has made to its channel numbers but... Not until yesterday night that I felt how chaotic it is, for me at the very least.

Skip this: -

RTM 1

- Formerly 1
- Now 101

RTM 2
- Formerly 2
- Now 102

TV3
- Formerly 3
- Now 103

Astro Ria
- Formerly 4
- Now 104

Arab Radio & TV Variety (ART)
- Formerly 5
- Now 111

Astro Vaanavil
- Formerly 6
- Now 201

NTV 7
- Formerly 7
- Now 107

Astro Prima
- Formerly 8
- Now 105

Astro ARUNA
- Formerly 9
- Now 121

Hallmark Channel
- Formerly 10
- Now 702

Discovery Travel & Living
- Formerly 11
- Now 707

Bloomberg Television
- Formerly 12
- Now 519

NHK World
- Formerly 13
- Now 963

TVIQ
- Formerly 14
- Now 552

Astro@15
- Formerly 15
- Now 109

Astro HITZ.TV
- Formerly 16
- Now 705

AXN
- Formerly 17
- Now 701

8 TV
- Formerly 18
- Now 708

Astro AEC
- Formerly 19
- Now 301

Al Jazeera English
- Formerly 20
- Now 513

Zee
- Formerly 21
- Now 108

TV 9
- Formerly 22
- Now 119

Astro KIRANA
- Formerly 23
- Now 122

Astro Ceria
- Formerly 24
- Now 611

Animax
- Formerly 25
- Now 715

BBC Entertainment
- Formerly 26
- Now 731

ETTV Asia
- Formerly 27
- Now 316

CCTV 4
- Formerly 28
- Now 334

WaTV
- Formerly 29
- Now 315

Astro Wah Lai Toi
- Formerly 30
- Now 311

TVBS Asia
- Formerly 31
- Now 317

Phoenix Chinese Channel
- Formerly 32
- Now 312

TVB 8
- Formerly 33
- Now 313

TVB Xing He
- Formerly 34
- Now 314

Jia Yu Channel
- Formerly 35
- Now 304

Astro On Demand Drama Barker
- Formerly 36
- Now 302

Phoenix InfoNews Channel
- Formerly 37
- Now 323

Shuang Xing
- Formerly 38
- Now 324

Celestial Movies
- Formerly 39
- Now 322

HBO
- Formerly 40
- Now 411

Cinemax
- Formerly 41
- Now 412

STAR Movies
- Formerly 42
- Now 413

Astro BoxOffice Movies
- Formerly 48
- Now 951

Astro BoxOffice Movies
- Formerly 49
- Now 952

Discovery Channel
- Formerly 50
- Now 551

Animal Planet
- Formerly 51
- Now 556

National Geographic Channel
- Formerly 52
- Now 553

Discovery Science
- Formerly 53
- Now 554

The History Channel
- Formerly 54
- Now 555

Nickelodeon
- Formerly 60
- Now 612

Disney Channel
- Formerly 61
- Now 615

Cartoon Network
- Formerly 62
- Now 616

Playhouse Disney Channel
- Formerly 63
- Now 613

STAR World
- Formerly 70
- Now 711

MTV
- Formerly 71
- Now 713

Channel [V]
- Formerly 72
- Now 714

Sun TV
- Formerly 73
- Now 211

Astro Vellithirai
- Formerly 74
- Now 202

Sun Music
- Formerly 75
- Now 212

E!
- Formerly 76
- Now 712

Discovery Home & Health
- Formerly 77
- Now 733

Discovery Real Time
- Formerly 78
- Now 734

Crime & Investigation Network
- Formerly 79
- Now 732

Astro Supersport
- Formerly 80
- Now 811

ESPN
- Formerly 81
- Now 812

STAR Sports
- Formerly 82
- Now 813

Golf Channel
- Formerly 83
- Now 815

Eurosport
- Formerly 84
- Now 814

Astro BoxOffice Sports
- Formerly 88
- Now 954

Astro BoxOffice Events
- Formerly 89
- Now 953

CNN
- Formerly 90
- Now 511

CNBC Asia
- Formerly 91
- Now 518

The News Channel
- Formerly 92
- Now 514

BBC World
- Formerly 93
- Now 512

CCTV9
- Formerly 94
- Now 501

17 Digital Radio Channels
- Formerly 101-117
- Now 852-868

astro@play
- Formerly 200
- Now 882

ITV
- Formerly 800
- Now 881

Astro Stocklink
- Formerly 888
- Now 888

Astro OASIS
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 106

Astro On Demand Movie Barker
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 110

Astro AWANI
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 123

Chutti TV
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 213

Makkal TV
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 203

KBS World
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 303

Astro Xiao Tai Yang
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 325

Astro HUA HEE DAI
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 333

Asian Food Channel
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 703

Christ... 109 of them... 99 changes... and Astro expect us to "get use to" these flashy new 99 numbers...

Why? Okay let's put it this way. I seldom watch TV, but not that I'm blur about every happenings regarding TVs and channels, in this case, Astro. At first glance I thought this changes is made up by some freaking geniuses at the Astro HQ and "it is suppose to make our life easier".

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Heck, not only we "press more" now (three digits instead of the usual two), not only our buttons and remote controller wears out faster (...), not only has it increases the "risk"/probability that we'd input wrong channel numbers because of the increased digits, not only our precious AA batteries wear out faster because of the increased digits we have to input and the increased mistakes we'd make that we have to press again and again (bla bla bla), IN FACT I don't mind all these! IF, the changes made would have benefit the users "in some way".

In the olden days when we first got our brand new Astro I could get use to the controlling schemes pretty quickly, in fact I've "mastered" Astro even faster than my dad. I knew thoroughly every features in Astro and I was managed to tweak in-and-out of Astro, from Channel Guide to Info to Menu... (hey it was pretty fascinating for a kid with the age of 9 to do just that yea), sometimes even my dad had to ask me for help.

But guess what I get now? The moment I got my hands on the remote controller I started to feel like I was a total idiot or some outdated "oyaji", for I didn't know what to press on the controller for the very first time of my life =_=. First I wanted to watch Wah Lai Toi, and of course I didn't get what I wanted for the first try. Then I tried Animax, and it was no where to be found (despite the fact that I didn't want to resort to the "ok" button and the Channel Guide database, I wanted a pure input of numbers with the controller)!

Gross... At last I gave up and decided to have a look at the brochure (the photos I enclosed above). And to my farting surprise I found no reason for the authority to have actually reorganized the channel numbers cause although it makes sense, but it confuses me more than it convinces me that they have made the right decision (don't know about you guys, but for me, certainly).

Using my "Extraordinary-Inaccurate-Induction-Ability" a.k.a. "EIIA~!", I have broken down the channel categories into X groups based on their "profound reinvention": -

1

- For unspecified and unknown and I-don't-want-to-know reasons Astro has assigned the value "1" for all Malaysian-based channels, such as RTMs and ntv7 all those. Was it that they accepted bribe from Mr. Patriot or they were trying to "flatter" Malaysian or whether they were showing their patriotism, you wouldn't want to know.

2

- The only changes Astro made onto its channel displacement that I LOVE is this. Astro has WISELY collected all Tamil channels under one number, "2". This is good for me as I would just have to avoid pressing it in any cases for I won't bump into any of these ever again. BUT THEN, why would they choose "2", please la get a worse number la, "2" is too good for this =.= (no offense to Indians).

3

- The evilish number, the number that once conquered Malaysian Chinese for years. This number has been assigned to all of the Chinese channels.

4

- The first number that is assigned not based on languages, the number "4" has been assigned to all movie channels. Why "4"? Beats me.

5

- Things starting to get messy here. At first glance this number is obviously chosen for all of the news channels but why the fart I get Discovery Channel, TVIQ, National Geographic, Discovery Science, The History Channel, and Animal Planet here!!?? Shall I call this a collection of news channels or documentary channels? I'll never know.

6

- All kids channels are here, simple and clean.

7

- Another bizarre mix-match of channels. I have given up on thinking for a "category" for this collection of channels after cycling through "Entertainment" and "Documentary" because I just couldn't find a clear similarity among those channels. What do you get when you cross AXN with Discovery Travel and Living and MTV with Crime & Investigation channel??? "Nasi Campur" channels I'd say.

8

- Sports lovers' lucky number. But beware not to bump into Radio channels, Game channel, and the Astro Stocklink channel as they are all preceded with this number too. Which explains why this is another poorly organized rubbish collection...

9

- The last on the list... And the number that puzzles me most. I couldn't get a farting idea what is this number for as I could only see "ABO" everywhere (which stands for Astro Box Office, with various content categories, including Movies, Events, and Sports). But just the moment before I wanted to assign a group name "ABO" for this number... I saw NHK World (a Japanese channel) on the list... Almost immediately I bit my thumb off, sucked my own toe, scratched my head into a bloody pool of question marks, screamed myself to heaven, and declared this groupd a "ABC" instead of the "ABO", they are Air Batu Campur for Christ's sake!!!

When I had a go-through on what has actually gone wrong approaching to the end of the list (when things are getting "disasterrific" as the number increases), I suddenly realized the answer. Why is this happening? Why are the channels which are not supposingly in the same group/category with others are grouped together? This is simply because we human has only created 10 Roman numbers, from 0 to 9. And it doesn't make sense if any of the channel starts with a "0" so Astro has been chopped down to 9 numbers as their choices. In this case they have only managed to group channels into 9 and any further in-depth grouping would require the users to input 4-digits channel numbers. What does that sound to you? It sure sounds like "fart" to me =_=. And this explains why the channels grouping was getting bizzare approaching the last number on the list, hope you get what I mean.

So after all the crapping, the conclusion? They should have stick to their 2-digits system, that's what I think. At the very least, I don't like it, the "evolutionary system". How about you?

On second thought, if I were to group channel numbers, I'd put like, "8" for the so-called "Entertainment News Channels" (ahem, I call them the Gossipers Channels), "3" for Malaysian channels ("m"), and perhaps "69" for adult channels, if there are any.

Note: The above entry is written wholly based on individual's views/perception/feeling/opinion/crap'sion, and is not meant to flame any particular broadcasting company/race/person as it seems. Any likeliness is simply a mere coincidence and the author would not take any responsibility for what I've said/written/crapped about, please proceed with caution and consider a thousand times before you pick up your phone and call Karpal Singh.

Please don't read this - Confession starring Boring feat. Sien feat. Empty feat. Lonely feat. -wtf -arsp whosyourdaddy greedisgood 10000000 blablabla

I have got nothing else better to do at the moment, and I have no idea of what to blog about currently. But this unexplainable sudden urge of blogging has put me right at this place, so what shall I do? I guess I'll just write anything/everything that goes through my mind until someone hands me a task to do...

boring freaking cold office talkative gossip old ladies sick scary straight-looking boss weird boss weird colleagues nothing to do Three Lau's Three Lim's One Wong One Ser Two Malays Vandread The Second Stage thirty minutes each I found it yahoo~ -.- -_- =_= =.= sien sien sien FFFFFFFFFFFFF ffffffff pfffffff give me something to do!!!! minesweeping sweep sweep sweep sweep ice-cream when is lunch time McFlurry Cornetto??? Black Cat drink drink drink water Bio Pure?? don't give a damn Canon canon Canon Dell Dell Dell D-i-a-u!~ @.@ hate talking with grannies hate talkative grannies hate hate hate give me work give me work give me work!!! listen mp3 listen mp3 listen mp3 what should I write now what what what who would even bother reading this bla bla bla I started to feel like this is the filler'st filler out of many fillers in my blog ever am I spamming? will my friends bang their chair onto the screen and stop reading and curse zLz to death? find me something to do gosh i'll have to stay put for 6 more hours and don't tell me today would end up with nothing to do at all wtf wtf wtf wth wth I can't play games in front of balls I cant watch anime in front of balls stop staring me stop staring me stop it!!! what it's not my false that i've got nothing to do then to crap in this notepad k? now stop staring me and find me something to do... i'll have to stay this way for another two god darn months ugh... oh oh the boss's coming he's heading my way oh wtf oh sweat go shu shu saja biarkanlah give me something to do la I beg you with my balls oh come on stop those gossiping already how's HT's car doing how's my buddies at Setapak doing how's SL doing I went missing for one whole week and I didn't expect you to go missing one whole week too did you block me don't want to talk to me? oh... that stern-looking boss again shoo la go away what to do with my blog I still couldn't come out with a new design yet might as well finish my freaking amount of anime first and what about my Shackiepedia oh gosh I never do things right oh your house kena banged? serves you right don't come near me gosh i hate talking GO AWAY go talk to the wall please me misanthrope? yea whatever this place is call Menang and yea they are so MENANG but I'm so loser I want kalah please GIVE UP MAN i starting to feel like I'm not welcomed here do you guys really need me in the first place if you got no tasks for me and you are not short on people why would you even bother hiring me in the first place realitylapse.com?? oh the sky sure looks scary speaking of sky Live Above the Skies sure was awesome!! I swear I won't work here anymore in the future I'd rather go Mc D at least I get to work non-stop right not to mention I get free meals ^.^ I wonder can I eat their McFlurry for free I guess no whaaaaaa.....ttt theeeeeeee heeeeeck am.....mmmmm aiiiiiiiiiii dooooooooooooooooooooooooo doo doo dooo doooooing heeeeeeeeeeerreeee shyt I have typed for soo long I thought but what the hell it has only passed 25 minutes!? no way I'm goind to turn this into 10-pages long I think I shall stop now whoever reading this I tell you you sure are freaking free and freaking insane to have read an idiot's crapping please go find something else to do or get online now and chat with me T_T

Storm Phase I

I was managed to find some time out of my office hour to sort through my previous posts... and came out with the labelling system. Yes this is part of the "storm" I was talking about - a renovation of my site. In the near future, my site might undergo major changes here and there, just to get things right and refreshing. I've also started a project of my own about a month ago which was intended as part of this "storm", it's code-named "Shackiepedia", and it is undergoing construction. I think I need a *VERY VERY* long time before I can really finalized it and show it to everyone. Till then, please be patient and stay with me ;-). I don't know exactly when can I really call an end to this "storm" thingy, but I'll look into it.

More storm to come.

Thoughts: Read through a few of my old posts and found out how naive was I in writing and word-usage back then, even found grammar mistakes here and there but didn't really take the trouble to correct them. Well I guess it'd be best to leave them alone, to show that I actually "grow up" throughout my blogging life XD.

I sure sound a bit too aggressive lately...

If you have been reading my entries, you'd realized that.

Yea I realized that too, I really went through hell lately though... Sorry if I have spoken/written a tad more offensive than usual...

This is just too bla...

I'm so darn freaking boring in this office, today's just like one of those days, where I have finished every single task handled to me and have to go around asking "anything for me?" having replied with "currently no, why don't you just sit down FOR A WHILE?". I'd rather I have LOADS of work to do then to sit like an idiot from working hour to the end of the day. And here I am online'ing in this office. What the fart am I doing...

Don't know whether it works... I've nothing else better to do, so join my "recraptional activity" during this office hour if you want:

Download BOTH of them before you open the html...
This.
And this.
(kindly proceed downwards and click on the "Free Download" button)

And before you go screaming and cursing around (probably with my name inside), you are warned that...

This is not funny at all.

(Yea right, now move on your ass with your work, this is just another freaking boring filler update. It IS boring because I AM boring duh.)

Meet Mr. and Mrs. Z

Mr. Z and Ms. Love

Sorry man I'm kinda slacking off lately and updates have been skimpy... Can't help it, so tired of working >.<